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O. A. C. GLEE CLUB Sings Saturday night at the Christian Church. OREGON BASKETBALL Oregon Freshmen vs. W. H. S., Friday evening. T VOL XIV. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, EUGENE, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY ti. 1913. No. 52 COLLEGE GLEE CLUBTO SING UNIVERSITY WILL ENTERTAIN O. A. C. WARBLERS WITH MATINEE DANCE FRIDAY GOOD BILL IS PROMISED Club Quartette Listed for Several Numbers—Scotch Monologue Man Featured. A matinee dance in the Men’s Gym nasium Saturday afternoon from three to five is to be a feature of the program in honor of the Oregon Agricultural College Club, preceeding the concert at the Christian Church the same night. Both the O. A. C. and the University Glee Clubs have consented to sing a number or two at the dance, which will afford the first opportunity of meeting the Corvallis warblers, and will also' prove a draw ing card for the hop and the concert later, as only those who have tickets,, or buying them at the door, to the ! evening performance will be admitted. This is not strictly limited to stu dents,—alumni and friends are in vited. It is also announced that no one will be admitted to the gymnasium balcony free of charge. Only those i entitled to dancing privileges will be allowed as spectators. Last year the singers from Corval lis gave a concert in Eugene. Two weeks ago when the University Glee Club appeared at the Agricultural HENRY RUSSELL Scotch Mcnologist With (). A. C. Glee Club. College, they were well received.—a large crowd attended the concert and a banquet was given the visitors af terward. The desire to return the compliment and to show the 0. A. C. representatives a good tim.e is the ob ject of the dance. The demand for seats at the Linn Drug Company, where they are on sale, yesterday in dicated a strong interest in the con cert on the part of the residents of Eugene. Fifty and seventy-five cents are the prices named. A feature of the program that no music lover can afford to miss, is the club quartette, composed of Messrs. Canfield, Johnson, Thomas, and Jor dan, which appears in numbers such as “My Rosary” and “Love’s Old Sweet Song,”—these are well rendered. Harry Russell, popularly known as “Harry Lauder,” appears in Scotch songs and monologues. His “Roamin’ in the Gloamin’,” “The Wedding of Sandy McXab.” and other selections, are.as popular as those he rendered last season AN AWFILTHOUGHT I 'V' /MCX THROOvH, ' SON ! KO'M'C ' WUM HAPPEN T' FAIL IN NOOK. Examinations } HUH? ’UfiTED KIVUI HWING THE V'/HCi-E FcTURg YV |T hi ■ t-'lUNK£RSv SORORITY Cr I R L !! how oe, BUNCH!! WHO HUSHED STRAW HAT SEASON? 'WE DID," SAT VERNON AND BEN Sigma Xu Men Slip One Over on Dame Spring and Wave Relics of Summer. It was a nice, bright and sunny day, was the first day of February, 1913. In fact, it was so much like a spring afternoon, that Sunday, that one was tempted to lay aside their winter tog gery, and listen to the birds sing in the budding tree tops. So felt several members of the Sigma Nu fraternity anyway. And although straw lids are not supposed to be worn until the first of May, there are exception to all rules. How ever, the temptation to doff their derbys and other specie of caranium coverings is a great one, and the at tics and closets must be searched for the yellow hued straws that are the object of the poet’s and cartoonist’s annual raillery. Vernon Vawter, the well known Glee Club comedian, and Ben Chand ler, who cavorts in the outer pastures luring baseball time, rushed the sea son last Sunday. They appeared topped with some of last year’s relics, and spent a part of the afternoon be coming accustomed to the “feel” of the first, straw hats of the year 1913. JOURNALISTIC STUDENTS DID GOOD WORK, SAYS JENKINS Last Sunday’s issue of the Eugene Morning Register, which was put out bv the students of the Journalism department, was better than the or dinary Sunday issue according to the editor, Frank Jenkins. The mail edition went to press in plenty of time for the early trains with but little confusion, in spite of the fact that there were so many stu dents working in the office who had had no experience in the office work. The only regular office men who were really on the job for the night were those in the press room. These men expressed themselves as sur prised with the manner in which the material came into them and de lighted with the make-up of the paper. Professor Allen expressed himself as being well pleased with the work of the students in this, which served as an examination after four months training. TELLS HQW10 BE CARTOONIST PRACTICAL ADVICE APPLIES NOT ONLY TO THEIR PROFESSION, BUT TO ALL WALKS OF LIFE—CONSENTS TO DRAW CARTOONS FOR EMERALD (By «J. E. Murphy, Cartoonist of the Oregon Daily Journal.) Ambitious youngsters aspiring to become cartoonists, as a rule, invar iably put the cart before the horse. In every case the beginner wastes hours, days, and even months of pre cious time dickering on the proper drawing instruments and materials most advisable for his work; making certain that he gets the same kind of pens, pencils, erasers, paper, etc., as those he noticed were used by some professional newspaper cartoonist, whom the beginner had recently vis ited in order to secure advise and in formation concerning the expediency of his taking up cartooning as a pro fession and as the means of a liveli hood; and again the novice pays too much attention to thinking up ideas, executing large “professional look ing’’ cai toons, and dreaming of sell ing his work to leading publisher without paying the slightest regard to the absolute necessity of first mas tering the fundamental principles of every finished cartoonist—in other words, learning how to draw. Cartoonists are continually con fronted with the expression: “It must be great to be a cartoonist, funny pictures are so easy to draw!” The expression is erroneous and results from the inexperience of some peo ple concerning the subject. In most cases, clever caricaturists are fin ished artists; men equally capable of executing skillful illustrations and designs as well as presenting the most ridiculous of exaggerations. To be an able caricaturist one must know the anatomy and the form of the human figure. Once endowed with this ability, a man, inclined to caricature, can make his work the acme of grotesqueness, of extreme simplicity in design still more difficult to execute, and work that could be imitated only by artists of equal fa cility. Although a thorough art school training is beyond the means of many young people, this condition has proved to be no handicap to those who are really ambitious. Many, possibly the majority, of car toonists are self taught, having been ; unable to take advantage of the lux uries of class study under the guid ance of master artists. After all practical experience is a good teacher, and perhaps as profit able in the long run. The young man intending to follow cartooning could make use of his time while studying cartoons by securing a position in some other department of a newspa per than the art room, and learn the game from the ground up. Again one may enter art rooms as an apprentice, without salary, figuring that study rig the methods and receiving critic isms from the practical artists is a most thorough schooling. The student should impress upon himself the extreme necessity of see ing things as they really are, and to he true to life in all cases. Cartoons, true to life, never go amiss, and be cause of the reader understanding the subject, such cartoons are always effective and refreshing, and, if prop erly carried out, are sure to make a hit. Daily association with nature— the trees, lakes, rivers, streams, the landscapes, etc., is one of the most valuable suggestions that could be offered; on the crowded street note the mass of humanity, going to and fro, the peculiarities of the various classes, the apparently well-to-do and the less fortunate, memormng the characters, faces, figures, action, etc. The same rule applies to everything in one’s daily life, and by working along these lines, one is laying the foundation of a successful career, the value of which will be more and more appreciated as time passes. The next step is to overcome dis couragements and obstacles that are blocking the paths. Many times it is MICKEY HAS DOUBTS CONCERNING PSYCHOLOGICAL DETECTIVE SYSTEMS Read About Professor Conklin's Ex periments in Paper; Subjects Dorm Men to Cross-Examination. Did you read about the Muenster berg theory of reaction time as ap plied to the art of detecting criminals in the Sunday paper? Well, that the feat of mental acrobatics has been ap plied recently to about thirty inno cent men on the University campus. The Dormitory has recently lost one of its music rolls that propels the mechanical music instrument through the mazes of “Everybody’s Doin’ It.” No one seemed to regret the loss, and no efforts were made to apprehend the purloiner of the classic, until one Freshman arose in his righteous wrath and set out in pursuit of the thief via the Muensterberg route, which goes something like this: The suspected party is given sev eral words, and asked to respond with the idea that is suggested by the re action word. The time that it takes to answer is noted as the reaction time, and the suspect that has the longest average time of reaction, is the guilty party. Martel Mickey, from Junction City got out a string of words that ended with the word guilty and subjected each member of the Dorm Club to the same rigorous examination. Mickey used a Big Ben alarm clock to aid him in estimating the period of reac tion. The music roll has not been found. An X-ray examination of Captain Johnson of Alma college showed that he had played the entire second half of a recent football game against De troit with a broken neck. A campanile three hundred feet high with a forty foot base costing $200,000 and to be furnished with $25,000 chimes is to In* erected at the University of California next sum mer. ■.....-. most difficult to secure a first posi tion, but as a rule, if a man has the ability and can deliver the goods, he is not long looking for a place. There is no nobler art than that of the car toonist, if he be of the right stuff,” his motto should be, “with malice to none, charity to all,” but he must be true to himself and his profession, though the truth sometimes stings. ASK 1913 JOB MOYER. ABERDEEN AND SPO KANE COACH, LEADS LIST OF PREP SCHOOL MEN TAD JONES RECOMMENDED Perkins’ Proposal to Coach for Love of Game Declined—Pinkham Expected in Week. Eight football coaches have to date filed application for appointment to the leadership of Oregon’s 1913 squad, according to Manager Geary’s list re ported to the Athletic Council Satur day. As Geary is in communication with several other prospective can didates who have not as yet filed formal applications, it is expected that the selection committee will have a list of some twelve or fifteen can didates, when a selection is made. The list is headed by Samuel L. Moyer, who has coached the Aberdeen and Spokane High Schools for several seasons, with remarkable success. Previous to coming west he coached the team of Franklin and Marshall College, of which he is a graduate. Frank Van Doren, M. 1)., graduate of the University of Pittsburg, and of the School of Osteopathy, at Kirksville, Mo., has played or coached every season since 1898. Last year he was assistant coach at the Pitts burg institution. T. W. Sievers, of Wenatchee, Wash., has turned out phenomenal teams at the High School the last three sea sons, winning the state interscholastic JAMES E. MURPHY (V.rlo«in;.‘.t, Who Will Draw lor the Emerald. championship twice. Ross, tar of Eugene High’s team last season, re ceived his initial training from Sievers. Joseph Gottstein, who played four yeais at Exeter College and Brown University, offers to undertake the responsibility of schooling the squad, his prime motive being love of the game. Gottstein is now engaged in mercantile pursuits in Portland. I. W. Hammond, an old Oregon wearer of the “O,” and player on the West Point team for three years, is now in the army, but would secure three months leave of absence during the football season. He has trained academic teams in New York several years. The Middle West is represented by Leonard Frank, who coached the Uni versity of Kansas team last year. Thomas I.. Shevlin, Yale’s coach, highly recommends Tad Jones, of last year’s team, who has applied for the Oregon coachship. '1 he athletic council has already acted on the application of F. C. Per kins, the Cornell fullback, who visited Eugene last week.